Jessica Sherr is an actress best known for her roles on Claws (TNT), Blue Bloods (CBS), Flight of the Conchords (HBO), and Cloak and Dagger (Freeform). She is the writer, producer, and star of the acclaimed one-woman show Bette Davis Ain’t for Sissies—a long-running play celebrating the extraordinary life of trailblazer and Hollywood legend Bette Davis. Sherr has performed the show to international acclaim at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, London’s St. James Theatre, and across the U.S., with over 475 performances in 30 states and 3 countries.
On the producing side, Sherr is currently developing Bathtub, a psychological horror film in production, and produced the award-winning dark comedy Wicked Image and the web series Scratch This, winner of Best Web Series at the Garden State Film Festival.
A versatile actress who moves seamlessly between comedy and drama, Jessica studied Improv at UCB (where she received a Diversity Scholarship) and The PIT, and trained with esteemed acting teachers Wynn Handman, Glenn Morshower, and Oscar-winner Mercedes Ruehl. Originally from San Diego, she is based in New York City. INSTA @jessica_sherr @bettedavisaintforsissies
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"Rebel with a Cause"--Chicago Stage and Cinema
Karen Carpenter -- DIRECTOR, is the director of the critically-acclaimed premiere of George Eastman’s comedy, Harry Townsend’s Last Stand, currently running off-Broadway. She is set to direct the upcoming premieres of the new play Re-Wire, and the new musical Brave New World. Karen’s previous Off-Broadway credits include: Delia and Nora Ephron’s Love, Loss And What I Wore, (Drama Desk Award, BWW Audience Favorite, NYT’s Critics Pick); Handle With Care (NYT’s Critics Pick); L.O.V.E.R., Bulldozer; and Witnessed by the World. Regionally, she has directed for the Old Globe Theatre, Paper Mill Playhouse, Bucks County Playhouse, the Contemporary American Theater Festival, and Surflight Theater. In the years Karen served as Artistic Director of the William Inge Theater Festival, she instituted a New Play Lab hosting over 70 playwrights readings of their newest works, and directed lifetime achievement tributes to David Henry Hwang, Arthur Kopit, Beth Henley and Donald Margulies. And as the Associate Artistic Director of the Old Globe, she produced over 40 plays and musicals, revived their annual Shakespeare Festival, and directed many award-winning plays, among them, As You Like It, named Best of the Year by San Diego Magazine. She is the Producing Director of her company, The Figment Factory, LLC. Faculty, Yale School of Drama, 1991-1996. Boston University alumna. kcdirector.com; @kcdirector.
Minjoo Kim — LIGHTING DESIGNER, is a lighting designer who is on a never-ending quest of understanding the perpetually fascinating facets of light. Working as a theatrical lighting designer in Korea, China, and the United States, she developed a keen eye for lighting and honed her drafting skills. Using hands-on techniques from live productions, she can approach design from dynamic and diverse visual perspectives Her collective lighting design credits include The Two(Space Awul), The Great Leap(Cygnet Theatre), Quiet No More(San Diego Women's Chorus), Qulili(The Blindspot), IDEAS-Cetacea(Calit2 Theater, Atkinson Hall), Crimson Girl(Dongsoong Art Center), Die or Not(Seoul Art Space Mullae), Mask on/off(Shanghai Dramatic Arts Centre). Her work Othello, directed by Dylan Key, got selected in the Emerging Artist/Imagination Exhibit from the USA at Prague Quadrennial in 2019.
She received MFA in theatrical lighting design from UC, San Diego, and a BA in Theatre and Film Design from Chung-Ang University in Seoul, Korea. minjoo-design.com